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Miraculous Newborn Helps His Parents Recover From Devastating Brain Injuries

posted by Mary Fischer 13 minutes ago in Baby

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Hearing the news that you are about to become parents is definitely exciting and also a little bit scary at the same time. Especially if you suffer from some sort of debilitating condition that makes everyday life a whole lot harder than it should be.

When Louise and Geraint Jones found out they were pregnant, they were pretty afraid of what the future held. Before getting married, both of them had suffered brain injuries, which left them each with a degree of memory loss.

Louise had been hit by a car and wound up with a fractured skull, and Geraint was attacked by two men, kicked in the head, and left for dead. The couple met at a support group for people with head injuries in 2008, got married in 2011, and the rest is history.
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5 Reasons Boy Babysitters Are Good for Your Kids

posted by Jeanne Sager 2 hours ago in Baby

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How's this for common sense being paraded as breaking news? The Wall Street Journal has an article out this week titled, "No, Girls Are Not Natural Baby Sitters." Considering my husband babysat as a teenager, they're only 20-some years behind the curve on that one, huh? And yet, when is the last time you hired a male babysitter? Have you EVER hired a boy to stay with your kids?

Even in areas where parents tend to be pretty progressive, the number of parents who are willing to let a male come into the home to watch their kids is pretty low.
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10 Places to Never Change Your Baby's Diaper

posted by Linda Sharps 2 hours ago in Baby

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Did you hear about the Denver parents who made news for changing their baby in a Starbucks seating area after they found no changing table in the restroom? An employee reportedly offended them by asking them to clean up, the dad angrily poured his coffee on the floor in retaliation, and things somehow escalated to the point where police were called to calm everyone down.

The parents are still unhappy about the way they felt they were treated by the staff, but I'm mostly stuck on the fact that they thought it was their right to change a diaper in a public eating area. Sure, it would have been nice to find a changing table in the restroom, but ... well, come on. That's what diaper pads and a little parental ingenuity are for.

Dealing with an emergency diaper situation when you're away from home is no fun, and I'm pretty sure we've all been there. I'm sympathetic to the challenge, but I still have to draw the line at changing a poopy diaper in these 10 obnoxious locations.
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Pathetic Excuse for a Human Being Calls Baby 'Ugly' on National TV (VIDEO)

posted by Jacqueline Burt 20 hours ago in Baby

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My great-grandmother used to have a saying: "Every baby is beautiful, so where do all the ugly people come from?" Okay, she was a bit senile, but she had a point. Which is: All babies are beautiful. So for a grown man to call an 18-month-old baby girl "ugly" is both insensitive AND inaccurate. But that's exactly what a panelist on Australian rugby sportscast The Footy Show did -- and what's worse, he didn't even have permission to use the baby's photo on TV!
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Dads' Modern Twist on Making a Baby Book Is the Most Beautiful Thing You'll Ever See (VIDEO)

posted by Mary Fischer Yesterday at 3:54 PM in Baby

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Have you been good about updating a baby book since your little one arrived? You know, either a scrapbook with a bunch of photos and keepsakes in it, or one of those store bought books where you can record all of your baby's milestones?

Creating something to commemorate the important moments in our children's lives is definitely essential -- and one couple went one step further to make sure they'd never forget meeting their precious babies for the first time.

Dads Matt and Josh made a video of their adoption journey -- and managed to capture the first time they saw their twins on film.

Did I mention they flew across the globe to India to meet their children?
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Baby Sent to Morgue After Car Crash Gives Rescuers Major Surprise

posted by Adriana Velez Yesterday at 2:59 PM in Baby

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Last year, little 1-year-old Eisa Hayat was making a pilgrimage with his family to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. But a devastating car crash killed both his parents, a set of grandparents, and an aunt, all at once. Only the baby survived, but just barely. He was rescued after he'd already been put in a body bag and was on his way to the morgue.

The family's taxi driver had fallen asleep at the wheel and crashed into a concrete bridge. Eisa's grandfather covered Eisa's body with his own, but rescuers still assumed the baby couldn't have survived the crash. They sent him off to cold storage in a body bag -- but someone noticed the bag moving. He had revived! Eisa was rushed to the hospital where he soon recovered. But he is an orphan now. Will he be alone? Hardly.
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Heartbreaking
Mom Arrested After Baby Dies in Hot Car & Dad Is Left to Pick Up the Pieces

posted by Jeanne Sager Yesterday at 12:22 PM in Baby

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As much as I love the spring, the spike in temperatures always gives me chills. I know what's coming: we're about to see a rash of "baby dies in hot car" stories in the news. That's just what happened in Texas the other day. A baby named Victoria Marks died in her mom's car, right outside the elementary school where Vibha Marks is a teacher. And now mom is under arrest.

That poor mother.

Heck. That poor father!
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6 Things I Judge Other Parents For

posted by Nicole Fabian-Weber Yesterday at 12:13 PM in Baby

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This may come as a shock to you, but parents actually judge. I know, it's terrible. If you've ever set foot into the wild world of parenting blogs, or, um, been around a person with children, you know this is true. Is it right? Of course not! But it's just the way it is.

I try not be a judgy mom, really I do. But sometimes, things just happen. I'm not proud of it. But I am going to own it. Here are 6 things I judge other parents for.
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Benefits of Teaching Your Baby Sign Language

posted by Bob Meadows Sunday at 3:00 PM in Baby

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It happened in the middle of the night. My son was crying and it was my wife’s night to get up with him. Throughout our son's first year, his nighttime tears generated a frustrating checklist of potential problems: Does he need a diaper change? Is he teething? Did he lose his lovey? Is he having separation anxiety? Does he have a fever?

But this time, my son gave the answer right off. He tapped the tips of his fingers together, using sign language to signal more, meaning he was hungry. A couple chopped up strawberries later, his appetite was sated and both he and my wife (and me, the unlucky light sleeper in the family) could lay down our heads for the rest of the night.
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Baby Booties Made From Donated Breast Milk Are Just Plain Gross

posted by Mary Fischer Friday at 5:02 PM in Baby

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Not sure what to do with your unwanted bodily fluids? Then you have to hear this idea. Why not go ahead and design a pair of baby booties made from breast milk in lieu of dumping it out in the sink?

Yes, someone really did this. British designers Nick Gant and Tayna Dean took the protein from breast milk that had been donated and turned it into a tiny pair of white, hardened baby booties.

Why on earth would they do something like that, you ask? Well, they did it to support World Breast Milk Donation Day.
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